linux-kernel - Re: [Patch net, v2] net: xfrm: skip policies marked as dead while reinserting policies

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Message-ID: <20230815060454.GA2833@breakpoint.cc>
Date:   Tue, 15 Aug 2023 08:04:54 +0200
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Dong Chenchen <dongchenchen2@...wei.com>,
        steffen.klassert@...unet.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
        davem@...emloft.net, fw@...len.de, edumazet@...gle.com,
        kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, timo.teras@....fi,
        yuehaibing@...wei.com, weiyongjun1@...wei.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch net, v2] net: xfrm: skip policies marked as dead while
 reinserting policies

Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org> wrote:
> >  		dir = xfrm_policy_id2dir(policy->index);
> > -		if (policy->walk.dead || dir >= XFRM_POLICY_MAX)
> > +		if (dir >= XFRM_POLICY_MAX)
> 
> This change is unnecessary, previous code was perfectly fine.

Are you sure? AFAICS walker struct has no 'index' member.